TYR Talks, James Merrill: His Letters and Legacy

In honor of the publication of A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill, edited by Langdon Hammer and Stephen Yenser, Meghan O’Rourke will have a discussion with Dan Chiasson, Shane McCrae, Maureen N. McLane, Srikanth Reddy, and Roger Reeves about the influence of James Merrill’s legacy: his dazzlingly witty letters, his cosmic vision, and his poetry’s trajectory. 
Sponsored by The Yale Review, English Department’s Theory and Media Studies Colloquium, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, and Whitney Humanities Center